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Dr. Marshall Shepherd, an atmospheric science professor at UGA, published a guest posting on the Capital Weather Gang blog at the Washington Post on the recent Ebola outbreak and what meteorologists have learned from challenges like Superstorm Sandy. If you deal with weather or other emergencies, you may be interested in his commentary, which can…
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Yesterday NOAA issued their latest winter weather outlook. The story is here and the maps are below. Their forecast is based on the likely (67 percent chance) development of a weak El Nino in the next two months which would steer the subtropical jet stream across southern Georgia and Alabama and Florida. While an El…
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One of the projects that support this blog has announced that they have a newly designed web site and national blog on animal agriculture in a changing climate. That blog previously covered just the Midwest but has now expanded to cover the entire US. You can find a description of the new blog and web…
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AgWeb reports that Illinois farmers are seeing what could be their best yields ever on corn this year, in a story here. The farmers say that the combination of timely rains with a relatively cool summer has led to great production by their corn plants, even though the crops are about a week behind normal.…
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The Pentagon released a new report this week which discusses how the military will prepare for adapting to changes in climate which could impact operations around the globe. In particular, rising sea levels threaten military facilities along coastlines, sea lanes will change as the Arctic Ocean becomes more open due to melting sea ice, and…
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Even though the storm system hitting the eastern US today is pretty strong, it pales in comparison to the massive low pressure center south of Iceland in the northeast Atlantic Ocean today. For a great picture of the streamlines of wind across the North Atlantic, go to https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-56.44,38.74,563 and watch the wind in motion. I’ve…
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This surface temperature map and weather analysis shows the changes that are coming to the Southeast as the next cold front passes. On this map from Chris Robbin’s Facebook page, you can see the cold air behind the advancing cold front, which is just to the west of Mississippi. The remains of the cold…
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